KINS Folk™

kins \kinz\ (plural noun)

Keep It Natural Stupid™

A community that inspires to Live Free
origin: Old English (cynn) | Dutch (kunne)
related: KISS method | clan | common ancestry | family

Do no evil

  • Harm Free ... ensure our actions are safe and healthy
  • Plastic Free ... use less plastic, striving for better alternatives
  • Chemical Free ... reduce or replace "synthetic" chemicals with natural
  • Cruelty Free ... allow all life to contribute with dignity

Do Good

  • Free Nature ... source, use, reuse, and dispose wisely with natural materials
  • Free Energy ... improve our quality of life by using renewable energy
  • Free Range ... support our small local family farms
  • Free to Thrive ... advocate equal opportunity for our daughters
Happy 2020

Goat Milk Caramel

ALL NATURAL
All-natural ingredients including goat milk, butter cane, brown suger, butter, corn syrup (all-natural), vanilla, and their respective flavor.

PERFECT SWEETNESS THAT MELTS IN YOUR MOUTH
Goat Milk Caramel has a soft texture that easily melts in your mouth with a balanced European sweetness that is satisfying without sugar overloading.


Mocha Coffee Goat Milk Caramel
Mocha Coffee
Sea Salt Goat Milk Caramel
Sea Salt

Coming Soon

  • Bourbon
  • Butter Pecan
  • Cardamom and Blood Orange
  • Chocolate Swirl
  • Hazelnut Coffee

Why Goat Milk Soap?

ALL NATURAL
Milk from free-range goats combined with natural ingredients by local farms who use these handcrafted soap for their own families. Happy goats make happy soaps.

GENTLE
Goat-milk pH is similar to our skin which helps to naturally repair, nourish, and moisturize. Children and the elderly, particularly, can benefit from goat milk soap.

SKIN-SENSITIVE?
Avoid that "dry skin-strip" feelihg that causes irritation and itching, requiring a "treatment" often greasy moisturizing. Feel fresh without feeling oily.

Item Price Note
1 bar $10
5 bars $45
Front Line Bar Contact us A thank-you exclusive for our front line workers
30+ Bar Contact us Required for special handling and planning.
(note: items cannot be returned)

All Year

Cedar Wood Goat Milk Soap
Cedar Wood
Eucalyptus Goat Milk Soap
Eucalyptus
Honney Oat Goat Milk Soap
Honey Oat
Lavender Goat Milk Soap
Lavender
Lemon Grass Goat Milk Soap
Lemon Grass
Orange Ginger Goat Milk Soap
Orange Ginger
Tea Tree Goat Milk Soap
Tea Tree
Unscented Goat Milk Soap
Unscented

Seasonal

Nutmeg & Cinnamon Goat Milk Soap
"Mama Holiday"
Nutmeg & Cinnamon
(avail Nov-Dec)

Succulent Lotion Bar

ALL NATURAL
All-natural ingredients including shea butter, essential oils, and goat Milk. Our bars last longer, and uses almost no plastics, which conserves the environment.

GENTLE REPAIR
Naturally repair, nourish, and moisturize.

FEEL FRESH NOT GREASY
Sooth and oil the skin without that feeling greasy and slippery.

Item Price Note
Green Succulent $10 3 green succulent-flower lotions per container
Edelweiss $4 1 white flower lotion per container
(note: items cannot be returned)

Succulent Lotion Bar
Green Succulent
Old Fashion Lotion Bar
Old Fashion Bar

Face Mask

The Face Mask contains 3 layers of 100% cotton cloth that can be washed and reuse. Features:

  • Includes two (2) filters
  • Breathing valve
  • Embedded nose bridge
  • Adjustable ear straps

Option:

We also offer limited custom embroidery. This personalization helps to identify your mask or simply to bring a smile to others. Please note, the standard face mask DOES NOT contain the flower embroidery (pink and green) shown in the pictures below.

Face Mask with Filter
Front Face Mask with Filter
Front (embroidered)
Back Face Mask with Filter
Back (embroidered)
Leftside Face Mask with Filter
Left (not embroidered)
Rightside Face Mask with Filter
Right (embroidered)

Care

Masks can be hand or machine washed and warm dried (gentle cycle). Remember to remove the filter before washing. Filters are disposable and should not be washed, and it is not recommended for reuse. As a general rule-of-thumb, filter last about one full-week of use.

Package Price Note
1 Mask $8 Limited quantity.
1 Embroidered Mask $20 Contact us to customize
Note

The face mask is NOT a replacement for N95 mask, or surgical mask. It is NOT FDA approved and is meant for personal use. Purchases cannot be returned.


Mask Filters

Face Mask with Filter
Front Face Mask with Filter
Filter Insertion
Back Face Mask with Filter
Non-woven Efficient Filter

Each face mask includes two (2) disposable filters, and additional packets are available separately. The mask filter contains 5 layers of polyester to offer a balance between breathability and protection.

  • Layer 1: Non-woven fabric - first line of dust filter
  • Layer 2: Meltblown cloth - very fine, highly efficient filter
  • Layer 3: Activated carbon - reduces particles, VOCs, and odor
  • Layer 4: Meltblown cloth - very fine, highly efficient filter
  • Layer 5: Non-woven fabric - final line of particle filtering

How Often to Replace

The filters are non-washable and should be replaced periodically. How often will be dependent upon one's environment conditions, exposure times, and the nature of high-risk incidents. For example, filters would likely need to be replaced more often when using the subway in New York City, than walking to a small store in Upper Peninsula Michigan. As a rule-of-thumb, replace the filter after a full week of use.

Package Price Note
5-Pack $8 Back-in-stock
10-Pack $14 Back-in-stock
20-Pack $25 Back-in-stock
Note

The filter is NOT a replacement for N95 mask, or surgical mask. It is NOT FDA approved and is meant for personal use. Purchases cannot be returned.

Why Shampoo Bar?

All natural goat-milk shampoo bar gently cleans and nourishes your hair back to its natural beauty, like a babies head? Get away from treating your hair with chemicals that strip all its natural oils that give you dry scalp and for some, "dandruff".

After a "transitioning" period of a week or two from chemical to natural soap, most people's hair should feel soft, often less greasy as the scalp's re-balances the one's natural oil scalp production.

Stop Paying for Water in a Bottle

Lathering the bar a few seconds in the hand is enough to produce suds to cover the entire head. On average, one goat-milk shampoo bar is equivalent to several 16-oz bottles of liquid shampoo. That's 2-4 less plastic bottles in the environment!

Item Price Note
1 bar $10 out-of-stock
5 bars $45 out-of-stock
30+ Bar Contact us Required for special handling and planning.
(note: items cannot be returned)
Shampoo Bar
Care Package Contents
Care Package Box

We-Care Package

To our fellow women and men on the front lines, away from family, and in harm's way

Thank-you

For your selflessness and sacrifice

We-Care Collage

We are so grateful of the volunteers who worked with us to create care packages for our local healthcare workers. We hope it will provide some emotional and physical relief, if only for a moment.

Some in the community have asked if they can also donate care packages or purchase them for others. Supplies and deliveries are constrained, but we will do what we can. We ask for your understanding that packages for healthcare workers will be given priority.

If you are interested in purchasing for specific groups or facilities please message us directly.


We-Care Package

(2) Goal Milk Soap - randomly selected
(1) Natural Lip Balm - lemongrass
(1) Old Fashion Lotion Bar - deep rubbing lotion
(3) Succulent Lotion Bar - gentle mosturizer
(3) Origami- two swans and one "large" bunny
(x) Surprise - sweets, sanitizer, or mask
Package Price Note
We-Care Package $30 See below if you would like to donate and we will deliver locally
(note: items cannot be returned)

Donation

It has been incredibly to have so many women asking if they can donate We-Care Packages for our healthcare workers in Hoboken, Jersey City, & Weehawken. The We-Care Package is a suggested $30, but any amount is appreciated.

We-Care Donation

Note:
The pandemic is impacting deliveries and supplies. Deliveries may take longer than usual or items may require substitution with equivalents. Customers will be notified if there are changes. We appreciate your understanding.

Events

ARThuy Events and Classes

ARThuy teaches a number of classes at the local library. Please be aware that the library determines the registration process and fees, and information here is informational only.

If your library is interested in an ARThuy class, feel free to contact us

Hoboken

Class Description Date
101-WEAVING Weaving 101 2020-Feb-TBD
101-WEAVING Weaving 101 2020-Jan-16
201-FLWRARG Flower Arrangements. 2019-Dec-12
101-BDYSCRB Home-made Body Scrub closed
121-LIPBLM Home-made Lip Balm closed
220-EATARG Edible Arrangements closed
301-STRART String Art closed
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Fort Lee

Class Description Date
101-WEAVING Weaving 101
Contact your library, to show your interest
2020-Q1 Planning
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Jersey City

Class Description Date
101-WEAVING Weaving 101
Contact your library, to show your interest
2020 Q1 Planning
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About Us

Let's face it. Our appetite to "gain" at all cost threatens our health and our children's future. We needlessly bathe ourselves with chemicals only to buy yet more products to counter its affects. And now cheap plastic bottles have infiltrated into our water, our food, and our body!

In the search for a healthier path, women are rediscovering "Nostalgia", bringing back natural hand-made traditions that was once considered "antiquated". We like to think of it as:

Oldways Good™

healthy | hand-made | natural | local

ARThuy works with small farms, businesses, and charities from all over the world focusing on empowering women who aspire to provide products that use only "All Things Good". Frankly, this is NOT easy. But we are so excited to find so many like-minded friends.

Join us as KINS™ in our journey.


Contact US


Happy 2020